This project is a response to what many people around the world felt during the Covid 19 Pandemic and what some other people experience during their lifetime.

Since the pandemic has started, I felt a disconnection with the surrounding world and mainly between people. We have sadly begun unsure of the human’s contact, and we started to saw the others as a threat.

As an artist I felt like be forced to distance and pushed away from the world which for me was a safe place to be. Immediately that comfort zone changed in a blink of an eye. The world begun somehow alienating and I felt I had to connect back with that world through a non-verbal communication and not surrender to the forced reality and changing. I had in mind a quote from Picasso: Without great solitude, not serious work is possible. I have then start to work and visualize what I have wanted to express though imaginary. My main inspiration come from painters such as Edward hopper with his lonely people, Giorgio de Chirico and Osvaldo Louis Guglielmi with their empty streets. I have built different environments which usually are very busy and crowed but this time the focus was only on one object. An object left alone with no contact to the others, left it there fighting its own loneliness. I believe many people around the world feel isolated, secluded, because of being cut off by circumstances or by wish. Solitude is a subject which reflects our daily life, our approach with the world and the others. I felt so there wasn’t a better occasion for me to bring my thoughts to life with the project. I have taken the chance to use all my free time to build from scratch surreal world and express with these the feeling of Solitude. The unreal corridor with only one door, painted red as colour of warfare, struggled to engage with the rest of the world. The facade of the building on an empty street with only one window, painted in yellow as optimist for a better change. The playground placed in the desert, the emptiest place in the world. A place where the chance to find life and survive is very little. The toy horse painted in green to resemble a new beginning, hopping that things will change, and life will go back to normal. The empty theatre with only one chair, rooted to its position and hoping the show would go on. To finish the man within the walls in the desert as a place forced to live in because of the restrictions imposed, restriction which cut our selves off from the rest of the world. A very lonely place to live without contact with the others. I hope this project brings to the viewer an awareness on how solitude can isolate ourselves and change our balance with nature. The unreal world is not so surreal as it looks like, it is instead the reality we all face during our lifetime.